Battle Lines Drawn Over Medicaid in Texas - NYTimes.com

The quoted comment below sickens me. It's this kind of mentality and generalizations that the right uses all the time. But I fail to see where they give ANY facts to their generalized comments. Why do these heartless, gutless, half-witted people keep getting elected into office?

Battle Lines Drawn Over Medicaid in Texas - NYTimes.com: "“If people are in superbad poverty, that’s one thing,” said State Representative Warren Chisum, Republican of Pampa, the state’s most vocal supporter of dropping out of Medicaid and a candidate for speaker of the House. “It breaks my heart when there’s someone who smokes, and who stays drunk half the time, and we’re supposed to provide their health care.”"